She Said "I Love You."

Drunk AJ simply filed away the kiss as “another thing that happened” in her brain for the rest of the night. She forgot about it and kept partying. She woke up the next day with a powerful headache and couldn’t find her hat. It was probably in a tree or something. She got out of bed and realized she was still dressed. She stripped off most of her clothes and walked to the bathroom in her underwear. She had a bruise on her foot. How did that get there?

She turned on the shower and started brushing her teeth in a daze. Rainbow Dash kissed me. The memory jumped suddenly into the forefront of her mind. She was on the dance floor with Dash, Twilight, and Pinkie. She had a drink in one hand and she was throwing her hat with the other (so that’s where it went). She was laughing at a joke Pinkie had told. Dash suddenly jumped in and kissed her. Just like that. She remembered not caring about it at first, hardly noticing even. Then Dash grabbed her around the waist and brought AJ in close. AJ had closed her eyes and felt Dash’s tongue enter her mouth. She had put her arms around Dash’s shoulders. How long did the kiss last? Seconds? Minutes? It ended when Pinkie half laughed, half shouted “get a room, you two!”

AJ dropped her toothbrush in the sink. Dash had run off after that. She tried to remember if she had seen her later but the night was a blur. Only one thing stuck out: Dash had kissed her, and she liked it.

She sat down heavily on the edge of the bathtub. “Oh, shit.”

Rainbow Dash was going to leave town. Yeah, that’s it. Just up and leave. It was the only option. She would leave before word spread and the humiliation crushed her.

“Fuck me, why am I so fucking stupid? FUCK!” She was pacing her room. She hadn’t slept.

Everyone saw it. Everyone saw her kiss Applejack. Everyone already knew Dash was gay, that wasn’t the problem. The problem was that she drunkenly made a pass at a straight girl and was rejected in front of literally everyone she knew.

They were dancing and drinking, Pinkie was laughing and Twilight was unsteady on her feet. She had turned around and she saw Applejack. AJ was sweaty and red-faced, and her hair was unruly. She was absolutely beautiful. Dash kissed her. She grabbed her by the waist and kissed her. AJ pushed her off. Pinkie shouted “get a room, you two!” and everyone laughed. They laughed at her. She ran away and ran straight into Blinkie. She threw her drink in Dash’s face.

Dash’s life was over. She was humiliated in front of more people than she cared to remember, and she had probably lost her best friend. Why am I such a fuck up?

Suddenly there was a knock at her door. She ignored it and buried her face in her pillow. There was a second knock, louder than the last. Dash dug her face deeper into the pillow. The third knock was too insistent. Dash stormed over to the door and looked through the peephole.

It was Applejack.

Rainbow Dash ducked down and wished she was invisible.

Applejack was getting a bit pissed off now. She hammered on the door for the fifth or six time and started shouting. “I know you’re in there, Rainbow Dash! Open the door! Look, I just want to talk. I ain’t mad at you!”

There was a moment of silence before Dash’s voice came from the other side of the door. “Go away AJ.”

“I ain’t leaving until we talk.” She crossed her arms, daring anybody to make her move.

“There’s nothing to talk about. I fucked up.”

“No you didn’t. We were both drunk. I know you didn’t mean anything by it.”

There was another long pause before Dash replied, in a significantly lower voice. “I think… I think I did…”

AJ felt a pit in her stomach. “Come again?”

“I dunno I just… lately… I feel funny around you. I don’t know why. I know you don’t like me like that, but… I can’t help it.”

AJ didn’t know how to respond. Was her best friend confessing to her?

“Dash… I-“

“You don’t have to say it. I know you don’t like me like that. I just hope… I hope I didn’t fuck us up. I don’t want to not be your friend.” Dash’s voice was coming from near the bottom of the door. She must be on the floor. AJ lowered herself to about Dash’s level.

“RD… honestly I don’t know what to think right now. I don’t hate you. In fact… I didn’t really hate… it. The k-kiss.”

“Shut up.”

“Hah, no seriously. You’re um… a good kisser…” AJ didn’t know what she was saying. Her stomach was a knot. “Look… let’s have a day to cool off, okay? Promise me we can talk tomorrow?”

“…………. Okay.”

“Okay then, I’ll see you tomorrow.” Applejack left feeling more confused than when she arrived. Nothing was resolved after all.

Rainbow sat with her back to the door for a while. She knew AJ was only saying that stuff to make her feel better, but it was almost working. She wasn’t going to run away after all.

She heard a distant bing that indicated a text message, and set off in search of her phone. She found it in the bathroom, for some reason. The text was from Pinkie. “dash do u have my panties?”

Dash sent back a simple “no” and started to make a sandwich. She had just realized she was starving. About a minute later, another bing brought Pinkies response. “found them at twilights xoxo” The thought hit Dash like a brick. Twilight can help me. She’s smart, she’ll know what to do! She quickly dialed Twilight’s number. Voicemail. She dialed again. This time she picked up.

“H’lo?”

“Twi! It’s Dash! We need to talk!”

“Mmmmm… right now? You jus woke me up…”

“Please Twi, it’s urgent! Can I come over?”

“Fffffine. Just gimmie like… an hour. I gotta shower…”

“Okay! One hour!” They both hung up and Dash began pacing.

After 20 minutes of waiting, Dash was at Twilight’s house. She banged on the door until a groggy Spike answered.

He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, yawning.“Uuuugh what do you want so early?”

Dash pushed past Spike. “Where’s Twilight? We need to talk.”

“She’s in the shower.” Spike yawned and stomped off. Dash ran upstairs to Twilight’s bathroom.

“Twilight?” She burst into the bathroom. “Twilight hurry up!”

“Rainbow, get the hell out!” She chucked a shampoo bottle at Dash from around the curtain. Dash decided to retreat to a safe distance for now. A minute later the water turned off, and Twilight emerged from the bathroom, still wet, clad only in a towel.

“Dash I said one hour, it’s only been like ten minutes.”

“Twenty seven, but I couldn’t wait. This is super important!”

Twilight rolled her eyes. “Fine, what is it.” Dash held out a badly wrapped gift. Twilight stared at it blankly. “You forgot to give me a birthday present? That’s it?”

Dash blushed nervously. “Well… that’s part of it. I figured I should butter you up before I get to the next part.”

Twilight grabbed the gift. “If you wanna butter me up, make me breakfast and wait for me to get changed.” She pushed past Rainbow Dash and slammed her bedroom door.

Ten minutes later, Dash had the bacon and eggs ready as Twilight came downstairs clad in a t-shirt and a pair of purple panties. “Sorry I’m so grumpy, I’m just really hungover.”

“Hey, it’s cool,” Dash started serving Twilight’s breakfast. “I’m not feeling too hot myself.”

Twilight snorted. “Never could have guessed. What’s up?”

Dash sat down. “It’s… not really easy to say… How much of last night do you remember?”

“You mean besides Pinkie nearly burning down Canterlot? Not much. Why? What did you do?”

“I… kissed Applejack. In front of everyone.”

Twilight choked. “Are you cheating on Blinkie? Oh, Pinkie isn’t going to be happy about that…”

“No! We broke up! And Pinkie saw it happen!”

“Why did you kiss her?”

“I don’t know! It just happened!”

“Geeze Rainbow, you have to think through your actions sometimes! How do you think AJ feels about this?”

“She said she wasn’t mad, but I don’t know how to feel about it!”

“Feel about what? If AJ isn’t mad or anything, then what’s the problem?”

“I think I love her!” Silence fell around the kitchen.

A moment passed as Twilight chose her next words. “Are you… are you sure? You don’t exactly have a good track record with healthy relationships...”

“I know that, I just… I can’t help it. I can’t get her out of my head. When I’m near her I get this knot in my chest and…” The girls sat in silence for a minute.

Twilight chimed in. “Tell her how you feel.”

“No way Twilight! I should just let this die without it going anywhere! It’s the safest option!”

“But if she’s your friend, then she deserves to know the truth. It’s the right thing to do.”